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Lädt ... A Fair To Die Forvon Radine Trees Nehring
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Tasty as apple pie, comforting as a mom's hug, entertaining as a sand-lot baseball game, A FAIR TO DIE FOR pits home-spun sleuth Carrie McCrite against evildoers whose lack of scruples are no match for her abundance of both scruples and charm. Lillian Stewart Carl, author of the Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron series A FAIR TO DIE FOR offers readers an intriguing premise, a surprise a page, and a delightful protagonist. A fine entry in a series with charm. Carolyn Hart, author of WHAT THE CAT SAW. (Fall, 2012) Gehört zur Reihe
It¿s October, craft fair season in the Ozarks, and Carrie and Henry are helping their friend Shirley sell her quilts and Baby Cuddlys at the War Eagle Craft Fair. After a mysterious cousin with ties to drug dealers appears, danger stalks the fair. When Carrie is abducted by killers following a breakfast at War Eagle Mill, she¿s afraid she won¿t escape, because¿though her aim in life has always been to help others out of problems¿no one who can help her knows where she is. ¿There is no me out there to help me.¿ ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Radine Trees Nehring For more than twenty-five years, Radine Trees Nehring¿s magazine
features, essays, newspaper articles, and radio broadcasts have been
sharing colorful stories about the people, places, events, and natural
world near her Arkansas home. She¿s also the author of a book of essays set in the Ozarks. ¿DEAR EARTH: A Love Letter from Spring Hollow¿ was published in 1995, and this novel is the seventh in her ¿Something to Die For¿ mystery series. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Like me, Carrie McCrite finds cleaning and cooking much easier tasks when singing and dancing to loud music. (I do try not to dance and chop veggies at the same time, just so you know.) Her husband Henry calls to tell her his meeting is running over and that he's going to be late. Before Carrie has time to digest that piece of news, the phone rings again. This time it's a woman claiming to be her cousin. Trouble is, Carrie was told that she did indeed have a cousin... who died when she was a child. She can't help but wonder-- if the woman is her cousin-- why it took so long for her to get in touch, and just what is it that she wants?
When Carrie and Henry begin helping their friend Shirley at the War Eagle Craft Fair, she becomes increasingly concerned over her "Cousin" Edie's strange behavior. Then a vendor disappears, there are rumors of some sort of drug connection in the Arkansas Ozarks, and Carrie finds herself in mortal danger.
This is the first book I've read in Nehring's Something to Die For series, and I enjoyed it a lot. The author told just enough backstory to prevent any confusion on my part-- and just enough to make me want to go back and read the previous books. Not being familiar with the Arkansas Ozarks, I appreciated how Nehring seamlessly wove information about the area into her book.
What I enjoyed most, however, was the story and the characterizations. Carrie is a strong, intelligent, funny woman whose faith is an elemental part of her being. I also loved the characters of Carrie's husband, Henry, and her best friend, Shirley, although there just wasn't enough of those two in the book. (I think that's where reading previous books in the series is going to come into play!) A Fair to Die For is most definitely Carrie's show, and the mystery she's been given to solve is a puzzling one. I was able to piece together enough clues to know whodunit, but the answers to why and how didn't become clear till the end of the book.
Nehring knows how to make a reader's heart beat faster, too. I'm not going to give away one of the very best parts of the book, but suffice it to say, at one point Carrie's life definitely hangs in the balance, and I loved reading how she kept herself together in order to figure out what she had to do.
Now that I've sampled the Something to Die For series, I have a strong suspicion that I'll be coming back for more! ( )